Example sentences of "more than [adv] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | In that sorry , in agriculture when there was a good harvest , prices would fall more than proportionately to the change in quantity . |
| 2 | The population of Portadown increased more than tenfold in the nineteenth century . |
| 3 | If she looked a bit to the right , northward , rather more than half-way into the forest , it was often there . |
| 4 | The very fact that there are bodies in existence whereby such matters can be mulled over , experiences exchanged and ‘ fixes ’ established bodes more than well for the safe operation of such aircraft . |
| 5 | Because cervicitis , cervical erosions , and discharges are so common in sexually active women , none of these features help more than indirectly with the diagnosis . |
| 6 | He thus revealed that he was out of touch with contemporary reality and that the complex dynamics of civilian society were more than ever beyond the grasp of his mechanistic , military mind . |
| 7 | As the 21st century approaches , solicitors are more than ever at the forefront of commercial and community life . |
| 8 | It was unshakable in its main bastion , Britain , and elsewhere the prospects of social revolution paradoxically seemed to depend more than ever on the prospect of the bourgeoisie , domestic or foreign , creating that triumphant capitalism which would make possible its own overthrow . |
| 9 | ‘ More than ever before the beer drinker and pubgoer needs a watchdog to protect their interests . ’ |
| 10 | Someone suggested she touch up her lipstick , but make-up only made her look more than ever like the Spitting Image puppet of Bette Midler . |
| 11 | Managers are more than ever in the public eye ; the scientific approach , in tactics , medical treatment , ground improvements , is commonplace ; floodlighting , numbered players , the ten-yard semi-circle are taken for granted . |
| 12 | Cut off more than ever from the society of my peers , I fell back on my mother . |
| 13 | She saw more than enough in the guilt and pleasure on his face to make questions redundant . |
| 14 | He used to enjoy telling us of the early trials of the Young husband expedition of 1908 which trekked more than halfway across the lonely reaches of Persia and Afghanistan , and over the Himalaya range to Tibet . |
| 15 | It 's irritatingly easy to crash at first , as the pushscroll is only activated when you 're more than halfway across the screen , giving you little time to see and avoid hazards . |
| 16 | How would you feel if someone flew more than halfway around the world to say to you , ‘ I am at a loss . |